Pakistan: University to Launch Course on Media Law in Islamabad
Posted on: Friday, 15 July 2005, 12:01 CDT
Text of report by Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) news agency
Islamabad, July 14: International Islamic University (IIU) is launching Pakistan's first ever university-level specialist course on media laws to develop expertise in the increasingly sophisticated media regulatory framework in the country.
The course on media laws will be launched by the IIU in Islamabad with the collaboration of the Pakistan office of Internews Network, an international media development organization.
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed on Thursday [14 July] by Dr Mahmood Ahmad Ghazi, the president of IIU and Adnan Rehmat, the country director of Internews Pakistan. IIU Rector Justice (retired) Khalil-ur-Rehman and S M Zaman, the former chairman of the Islamic Ideology Council were also present.
According to the MoU, Pakistan's first university-level specialist course on media laws will be offered to journalists, lawyers, broadcasters, communications specialists and others.
The course has been designed by Internews Pakistan with the financial assistance of the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Internews Pakistan will train the university faculty and provide ongoing consultancy for teachers and students of media law. Access will be provided to the Media Legal Resource Centre at Internews.
Media as an industry is expanding exponentially in Pakistan, as well as the Muslim world in general and has become a multi- disciplinary field requiring greater professionalism. The emergence of new sophisticated regulatory regimes relating to media pluralism calls for a critical mass of professionally trained media lawyers to assist the burgeoning industry and meet the complex legal challenges facing it and to develop the expertise to defend media freedoms.
The course on media laws aims to impart in-depth understanding of laws in areas of media, intellectual property rights and regulatory frameworks in Pakistan as well as in various Islamic states like Turkey, Egypt and Indonesia. The students having attended this course will be able to understand the role of media in developing an informed society and allied issues like media freedoms, media ethics, access to information, the rights and responsibilities of media etc. The course will help develop a cadre of trained media lawyers to meet the new media regulatory challenges as well as defending media freedoms in the country.
Source: BBC Monitoring Media
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